OBAMA’S DO-NOTHING POLICY INVITES GRAVE CRISIS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA
US-China relations have entered a critical stage, as the world’s two biggest economies clash head-on over Beijing’s aggressive reclamation projects on the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. …
IDYLLIC DAYS OF BANISHMENT FOR A FORMER PUBLIC CORPORATION OFFICIAL
“I sometimes think I could have done more,” remarks Sachio Katagiri, reflecting on the experiences outlined in his recently published Idyllic Days of Banishment: A Year at the Shikoku Branch of t…
INJUNCTION AGAINST RESTART OF NUCLEAR REACTORS FULL OF DECEPTION
Last week I invited two experts—one nuclear and the other legal—as guests to my “Genron TV” weekly Internet news show to review a controversial recent decision by a district court banning a plann…
CHINA PURSUES AGGRESSIVE POLICIES IN ASIA AS US CONTINUES TO LAG BEHIND
Nothing reveals China’s true intentions more clearly than the scores of aerial images the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) carried recently on its home page.…
ABE SHOULD HIGHLIGHT POSTWAR JAPAN’S UNIQUE GLOBAL CONTRIBUTION IN ADDRESS TO US CONGRESS
With a scheduled address by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe before a joint session of US Congress approaching, it is pertinent to ponder how Abe’s predecessors—such as Shigeru Yoshida, Ichiro Hatoyama,…
